Mekala Rajagopal

Before Alina Troyano's new show, "Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!", playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins sat down with his former teacher to reminisce on the downtown theater scene she helped create.

This past Saturday, just off of Canal Street, hundreds lined up for the opening celebration of Telfar’s very first brick and mortar store. As customers took turns at an LED-lit bag bar, team Telfar put on a chaotic, live-broadcast talent show featuring everyone from Teezo Touchdown

You know when you’re at the airport or IKEA, and you catch a kid going through the motions of a dance they learned on TikTok, but in the most lobotomized way possible? Katseye

On the eve of her new one-woman show in Los Angeles, the comedian joined Steven Phillips-Horst to discuss nudity, sisterhood, and the perils of feeling too cool.

The image architect shows us how he keeps his generosity pumping all season long.

Ryan Destiny wears Sweater, Top, Long Skirt, and Calfskin Leather Belt

By the time I was introduced to Hervé Guibert, he had already been dead for 24 years. Gracing this planet with incessant wrath from 1955 to 1991, the French writer, photographer, and filmmaker pioneered autofiction and then passed away in unsheathed honesty, documenting his dying days with AIDS. But since 2014, Guibert has gone through a process of resurrection.

Whether performing in a small Roman theater or starring in a major Netflix production like Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Alba Rohrwacher brings intense dedication to every role. “I need to be obsessed with my character,” she tells her friend and former La Chimera co-star Josh O’Connor. “I need to understand the world of the director I’m working with.”

In an era when Hollywood retreads and corporate trends have become the backbone of blockbuster filmmaking, a crop of up-and-coming directors, unburdened by an adherence to Hollywood’s established norms and conventions, are approaching their movies with fresh, uninhibited perspectives. of ignorance in the face of industry conventions. Their work spans traditional genres, from coming-of-age comedies to sports biopics to prestige adaptations. Budgets range from streamer-funded to scraped-together. And while all of this results in different styles of filmmaking, their commonalities are much more salient. To find out why, we asked Eugene Kotlyarenko, filmmaker and host of the Director’s Commentary podcast, to speak with six early-career directors with big dreams and bigger ambitions. In the fourth of five installments, he talked to Rachel Morrison about the The Fire Inside, a riveting look at the turbulent rise of female boxing superstar Claressa Shields, that updates and upends the sports biopic.

The renegade gay novelist sounds off sailors, silver daddies, and hustling ahead of the release of his new sex memoir.